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A Very Useful Guide to Virtual Classroom Collaboration

The CoolCatTeacher

Collaborate with faculty to support them in an instructional design capacity, inspiring and helping them implement engaging curricular units around instructional technology and innovation. Develop training and instructional materials for faculty to enhance their fluency with available technologies and software.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

Edsurge

“Constructionism,” a term Seymour coined in the mid-’80s in connection with the academic work on LOGO, (the children’s computer programming language) and the education movement it spawned, became the basis for our work together at the MIT Media Lab (described in a book we published in 1991). Playful Learning and Hard Fun.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

I’m ending that series, I think, so I can focus on writing books. Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Texas , a Prized K–12 Market , Approves Wave of Instructional Materials.” A nice review in The Nation of Eve Ewing ’s new book (and her work more broadly) on the closure of schools in Chicago.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Tressie McMillan Cottom ’s new book, Lower Ed , is now out, and you should buy it and read it. ” Via Education Week : “ New Online Tool Aims to Help K–12 Leaders Choose Instructional Materials.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.